Questions tagged [service-account]
Service accounts are Windows accounts with special permissions on farm servers and in the farm itself, and are responsible for automating many of SharePoint's functions and integrating it with the local operating system.
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Should my farm account be in the local admins group?
In my Review problems and solutions reports I have the following Security Warning:
Both of the offending services use my "farm" managed account (I named it SP_Farm on my domain, it's the one you have ...
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Why is SharePoint 2013 adding random characters in front of usernames in Web Application Policy users?
When I add a user to the Web Application Policy screen some additional random characters are added in front of the Domain.
I cannot remove the users and changing the permissions on a user with the ...
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Credentials prompts after changing service account password
SharePoint keeps asking for password in IE and Chrome after changing the service account domain\serviceapp.
After changing the password we updated the password in IIS and Central Admin Managed ...
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accessing database through sharepoint using a service account (windows account)
I am having an issue with connecting to the database for KHouse through sharepoint.
I have run through several workarounds to get it to work, but to no avail.
We are using several pages that retrieve ...
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Remote Desktop rights - SharePoint 2010 Service Account (is it really required)
I am preparing a SharePoint 2010 (1 WFE/APP + 1 DB) farm. While planning for service account creation , I was wondering do I really need to give Remote Administration Rights to this account.
The ...
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Change SharePoint Service Account using PowerShell
In the Central Admin you are able to change a registered Service Account to a specified service (as in the image)
Is this possible to manage by PowerShell?
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SP2013 : after passage from http to https, search does not display results
I've passed from http to https using certificates, Alternate Acces Mapping AND IIS module "URL Rewrite" (using these links : Configure SSL for SP2013 and IIS URL rewrite)
But since then, my Search ...
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Login issues with the search service application, the crawler and the database
the search service of the the farm is not responding properly. In particular the crawler component is having troubles. When I search for something I get this:
I am constantly seeing the following ...
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What is a service application and a service account in plain english?
I am finding it difficult to find a plain non/semi technical description online of what these are used for.
I come from a programming background but don't have a lot of administration experience.
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Managing Sharepoint 2010 Farm service accounts?
We are using a single Farm account in our sharepoint 2010, would like to manage the service applications and web applications with the proper service accounts. What would be the best and reliable way ...
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How to check my permissions
I have been getting mixed answers regarding this question. How can I find out what permissions I have in a Sharepoint farm? I'm pretty new to it and I have been told that I have a farm account but on ...
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hasn't been shared with you (_admin/FarmCredentialManagement.aspx)?
When I go to (Configure service accounts) I get the following message:
*> _admin/FarmCredentialManagement.aspx
"Sorry this site hasn't been shared with you".*
I've added my account in domain as a ...
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Does the System Account need to have direct permissions on a site?
My team's created a new site collection in SharePoint 2010. I'm setting permissions on the site and when I go to "Site Actions > Site Settings" I noticed that the System Account SHAREPOINT\system has ...
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Which accounts should be managed accounts?
Three questions on a theme...
Which accounts should be managed accounts?
Or perhaps to put it another way, which services / things are best to have as managed accounts?
Or perhaps the opposite ...
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No log on as batch - but sites still work
So I came across an interesting error today. I've got a SharePoint 2010 server setup and running a few web applications. Each of these web applications are configured with their own app pools and ...
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SharePoint 2007 Search Crawling Failed
I have problem in SharePoint 2007 Search Crawling in Index Server, it display error message in the Crawl Log stated "Could not Connect to the server. Please make sure the site is accessible" and no ...
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What permission does my search service account need for external database searches?
The farm admin for my SharePoint site has a different Default Search Service Account login than the one I am using to create my external content types (which is my personal log in). When I am trying ...
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Change Workflow Manager 2013 credentials
I need to change the service account running Workflow Manager 2013 and I am unable to find a procedure for doing this without dismantling the whole farm and starting again the process. I tried ...
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Service accounts for database connection
We have a SharePoint web application with multiple site collections under that. We have built a new site which will be hosted under the same web application but in a new site collection. It has some ...
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Difference between service accounts and managed accounts
I have gone through many articles and understood partially. Anyone Can you please generalise with this service and managed accounts?
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Unable to change SharePoint account password in SharePoint 2010
I was trying to start Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service
But it threw
The password for the account domainName\empID, as currently stored in SharePoint, is not the same as the ...
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Changing from Network Service to a Domain Farm Acct
I am attempting to avoid re-installing a farm that was built very quickly using the network service acct for the set up of a single stand alone 2010 environment.
The issue I am running into is the ...
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web application stopped working after change of service account
Web application is running with NetworkService Account. However, when I change to a domain account. The web application stopped working. It doesn't accept the user id anymore and keep prompting me ...
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Do timer jobs always run under DefaultServiceAccount?
I'm curious whether or not all timer jobs will always run under the same farm service account, i.e. SPFarm.Local.DefaultServiceAccount as specified at installation. For example, if farm service ...
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SharePoint 2013 service accounts
I am getting ready to build a three-tier SP 2013 server farm and have a couple questions about the domain accounts needed. I was planning the following:
sp_install
sp_farm (farm acct)
sp_webapp (for ...
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What is the advantage of using local server admin account on the SharePoint 2010 server over sp_farm account?
What is the best practice and advantage of having the local server admin accounts(user accounts) on the SharePoint 2010 server(to login and check the logs) over the sp_farm & sp_admin account. i.e....
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What user context do SharePoint E-mail Alerts run under, when they are generated?
I would like to customize the layout and content of some of the alerts SharePoint generate, but I will be using the search engine for some content, and therefore I need to know which user context the ...
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Change SharePoint 2013 Service Account
I have SharePoint 2013 post installed with a single account which runs all SharePoint services.
Now I want to apply the best practice SharePoint 2013: Service Accounts on the SharePoint server by ...
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IS there any Risk if i remove the BUILTIN\Administrators from my SharePoint on-premises 2013's "Farm Administrators" group
I realized that inside the SharePoint On-Premises 2013 Central Administration, the "BUILTIN\Administrators" is being added inside the "Farm Administrators" group + 2 service accounts as follow:-
now ...
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SQL service accounts keep getting Locked out
SQL service accounts keep getting locked out in AD.
I have to unlock them everytime.
What could be the probable cause and a solution?
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Service account in SharePoint?
I am a newbie in SharePoint and I need to install SharePoint 2013 for learning purpose , can I use only one account ? if not what's the service account required ?
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SharePoint accounts being created in SQL with $ at the end
I'm getting the following error: (EVENT ID 3760)
SQL Database 'WSS_Content' on SQL Server instance 'SQLSERVER01' not found. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.
Cannot open ...
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Sharepoint Foundation 2010 Hardening
I have never hardened a SharePoint site before and I am having a hard time using all the recommendations I find online.
This blog post discusses the different accounts that should be used for ...
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Uninstall app for SharePoint': The System Account cannot perform this action
I have the SharePoint 2013 RTM Farm from Cloudshare.
This SharePoint topology includes a server with SharePoint 2013
Enterprise RTM, Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013 RTM, an additional
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Which service account to use for Kerberos in out-of-the-box SharePoint?
I just installed SharePoint2013 Enterprise on Windows 7.
Now trying to set up Kerberos authentication, following this guide.
PROBLEM: What is "serviceaccount"? In this context:
2.2 Next, list all ...
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AD Managed Service Account as SharePoint Managed Account
I'm slightly confused with regards to managed service accounts in Active Directory & SharePoint.
Here's what I'm doing:
Create a managed service account in AD with "New-ADServiceAccount" & ...
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SharePoint 2016 user account permission
I'm doing March 2019 update on SharePoint 2016 servers this weekend. The Service account that we have (for eg spfarm) is sysadmin on the SQL Server. According to the MS doc, the account also needs to ...
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Which Steps to perform after changing Service Account password from Active Directory?
I have one requirement where I have to reset password of Service Accounts and SQL Administrator account of SharePoint from Active Directory. Now after changing these password what should be my next ...
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Service account to access data without being able to log into the web interface?
I've been asked a tricky question.
Here is the schema.
A user have access to a custom web interface, no SharePoint.
He wants, through this interface, to access data on SharePoint. He has no account on ...
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Get all Personal Views from a SharePoint List
I understand that I can impersonate a user with a user's token to get their personal view, but is there a less brute way of getting personal views?
Is there an account I'm over-looking that has "...
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InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2013 Claims Based
I cant get InfoPath 2010 to auto populate current user in SharePoint 2013, It keeps populating service account. I know this has to do with claims based auth but I can't see any reasonably workaround ...
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InfoPath and Dynamics AX
I have an InfoPath 2010 form that I am publishing to SharePoint 2013. I have added rules like PreferredName, WorkEmail and WorkPhone to auto populate and everything works fine when I preview. The ...
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Change SQL Server service account
I need to change the Service Account for Sql Server (i.e. I need SQL Server to run under a different account). Can I just change the account or do I need to perform some Sharepoint configuration as ...
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Three-tier Farm install, what to use on DB - SP_Farm or SQL_Admin?
I'm installing SQL on (by example FARM_DB1) server. I created SP_Farm in AD and added it as admin on machines, and I'll use it on WFE's. But what is best-practice for SQL machine? Which account to ...
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Service account confuse
Which accounts should added to the managed accounts in SharePoint and why?
Should add all service accounts and app pool account to the managed account or there is an exception?
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How many Service Acccounts should each farm have?
I have to rebuild two farms (DEV and QA), which were previously built using the GUI. Production will likely be rebuilt, but that's for another day.
How many service accounts are recommended for each ...
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Exchange the setup account
I need to exchange the setup account I have used to install and configure an entire SharePoint farm. Apparently I had received a 'non-permanent' account which now needs to be replaced with a proper ...
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Can I reuse AD accounts set as SharePoint service accounts in other instances of SharePoint?
I'm currently installing a SharePoint 2013 Farm using an AD domain that currently already has a totally separate SharePoint installation. I was just curious if i could reuse the service accounts ...
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Search Service App Pool will not stay running sharepoint 2013
I configured search on a separate app server. Everything went well but the app pool wouldn't stay running. I got the following error in the event viewer:
Application pool ...
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SharePoint install account
I have read a lot of info about creating a domain account for installing SharePoint 2013. The problem I see with this account is all the SP admins would have to know the password. If someone leaves ...
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